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NOV 9 1983 <br />5 �a X73 <br />reasonable, and Chairman Bird felt it was as long as the <br />structure is at least as water conservative oriented as the <br />one originally proposed. <br />PROPOSED WATER AGREEMENT DISCUSSION <br />Chairman Bird opened discussion on the proposed water <br />agreement as explained in the following staff memo: <br />TO: The Honorable Members of DATE: October 25, 1983 FILE: <br />the Board of County Commissioners <br />THROUGH: Michael Wright � <br />County Administrator SUBJECT:GENERAL DEVELOPMENT UTILITIES <br />WATER AGREEMENT <br />Water Agreement between <br />FROM: Terrance G. Pint REFERENCES: General Development Utilities <br />Utility Services Director & Indian River County <br />DESCRIPTION AND CONDITIONS: <br />General Development Utilities, Inc., in.making an application for a <br />rate increase, has expressed a desire to build a new water treatment <br />plant. <br />Staff recognizes that if GDU was permitted to build this new water <br />plant, it would drastically increase the rates of their existing - <br />customers. <br />Staff believes that if GDU purchases water from the County, it <br />would be a much more cost effective method for supplying the <br />Vero Highlands and Vero Shores area with water. <br />The proposed agreement addresses all of the concerns that the County <br />would have in protecting the interests of all other utility customers. <br />ALTERNATIVES AND ANALYSES: <br />To not service this area with County water and to allow GDU to <br />provide their customers with water by meeting whatever requirements <br />are imposed upon them by other regulatory agencies or -to allow the <br />County to provide water charging appropriate rates and impact fees. <br />RECOMMENDATION: <br />Staff recommends the County supply water to GDU under terms of'the <br />attached agreement which we feel would be in the best interests <br />of the residents within the GDU area and other County utility <br />customers. <br />Administrator Wright noted that GDU has one of two <br />options to improve the quality of the water — either to buy <br />processed reverse osmosis water on a wholesale basis from <br />the county or to construct a new type of treatment facility <br />NK <br />